Magazine Cover Draft

This is my first magazine mock draft as an example of my final piece. I used the colours i origionally decided to use, red black white and grey. This gives an urban effect and as Hip-Hop is urban related and based i think it fits in well. I used Ricken Ram as my front cover model because he fits in with Hip-Hop based things such as his taste in clothes, music, shops and hobbys. He also enjoyed the taking part side of this photoshoot and was happy to be included. My background is very much like a spotlight, i used gradient on photoshop to produce a diamond shape background and used a sharp, bright colour to contrast with the black to produce a lighting effect. My masthead and sub-heading are in red to stand out from the black and white attrcting readers automatically to the logo and title to make sure they are aware of what they are reading. My Writing on each side of Rickens pose shows recent and important news to readers to make them want to look inside and is almost a cliffhanger which makes them want to read more.My use of speakers show music representative and the speakers are large and bold. The zig-zag speech bubble with more information in are giving the illusion of vibration showing the speakers are creating base and loud beats. My magazine cover will be similar to this draft and i will use ideas to help me achieve a greater final product.